Cheryl, thank you. It is great to be here. I am excited to introduce you to our panel of guests today. We have sheryl davis, who is the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. David harris he is the c. E. O. Of the oaklandbased nonprofit urban Strategies Council. And finally, zahrah farmer shes a professor at Laney College and the host of days with zahrah, which airs here on abc7. So, thanks to all of you for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Now, before we get into our discussion, lets take a look at a recent abc7 news story focusing on challenges facing San Franciscos Africanamerican Community. Some Church Leaders want San Francisco mayor ed lee to declare a state of emergency to keep blacks from being pushed out of the city. Abc7 news was at Third Baptist Church in april as faith leaders pointed out the africanamerican population of the city is now below 6 . They say housing is a big factor. The group cites a traditionally black Senior Ho
President s policies have not happened yet. Doc, ill throw it to you. Is there what art cashin calls a celebratory overload in the market . There could be, judge. There is no doubt that weve come very far very quickly. However i think its got a lot more gas in the tank. I agree with professor shiller. He believes that we could have a substantial move higher from here. Crediting the president and saying in comments today that he saw upside, considerable upside from here. Maximum optimism. A number of new highs. Go down the list today, 52week highs. Tiffany, conag. Going in alphabetical order. Two pages worth of stock s s p today hitting 52week highs. Thats not a bad thing. Im not saying it is. At some point you question whether the air has gotten a little sthin. I dont know. I think that the reason the market are going up are a couple of reasons. Certainly trump growth excitement is in this, it is in the marth to some dee agree. But i also think its because the global economies are Gett
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to midlibrary. Please take a moment to silence her cell phone if they arrived. This event is being shown by cspan booktv. The microphone will be there and it will not project into this room, so please speak loudly and clearly. Tonights program is a talk based on the book search of hunger, chief justice and money in the 21st century. This is called into question and china levens. Here he discusses pushing the ball of eradicating hunger out of reach. The rise in the price of food staples of the world market, the practice of using corn to make ethanolbased fuel. The Global Warming and its resulting extreme weather pattern with severe droughts particularly in africa and increased function of china and india which produced as the supply of grain for direct consumption by people. Approach of hunger received a stark review at Publishers Weekly which stated the stellar addition to Development Policy literature. David
Were really saying, it is not about anything but helping them understand, what do you do when you get mad . How do you handle it . There are ways to create a new vision for america, for our beloved country, that is peaceful, people getting along, knowing how to disagree without being disagreeable, how to argue without picking up a weapon and going after someone. Thats the future were envisioning and the national weefk nonviolence is one way to get that moving. Youve got a lot of support, obviously. The mayor of alexandria is here with you. And d. C. Mayor vincent gray promoted the nonviolence. Hi, iimvincent c. Gray. The National Week of nonviolence is august 16 through august 23rd sponsored by black women for positive change ,the purpose of the national weefk nonviolence is to focus on changing the culture of violence in america. Far too many innocent people are killed through senseless acts of violence. I invite you to aten the National Summit on nonviolence on saturday, august 23rd,
This mornings Gross Domestic Product figure showing a 5 gain for the quarter. Hallelujah thats one of the blowaway numbers that helped define todays trading where the industrials did well, and so did a lot of stocks that are benefit frgt huge decline in raw costs and very rapid increase in cheap gasoline fuelled Consumer Spending. Thats why we jumped over the 18,000 hurdle. Its loaded with biotech stocks that got hammered again. Let me find what appears to be the perfect stock for this moment because it had several winds at its back when you would at least expect this one to be working, and the stock is kimberlyclark. Okay. I know this companys stock sounds counter intuitive, but listen, you would hear me out. Kimberly is a gigantic intensely branded company, and when i say our countrys gdp flying like this, i wonder if the consumer, which is the 70 of the gdp isnt trading up. Trading up from cheap private labor products we always talk about to kleenex and huggies. It used to happen wh